Dan_and_Dave_-_Card_Men

CARD MEN Dan and Dave Card Men was writen for Dan and Dave by Ricky Smith and carefully proof-read by Elliot Terral and Zachary Zeller before being printed in the United States of America and ofered for sale on dananddave.com Limited to 500 perfectly bound copies Cover photograph by Brad Fulton (c) Copyright 2014 Dan and Dave Industires, Inc All Rights Reserved A wise man once said Real men card tricks Please ind enclosed a small collection of original material devised over the years and put forth in print for the sole purpose of documenting our ongoing fascination with sleight of hand Past documentations include: Artiice, Ruse and Subterfuge in the Hands Nursery Rhymes Pasteboard Animations Five he System Sleightly Magical he Trilogy Andthensome Organic: A Study on Engineering Miracles If an Octopus Could Palm Contents Fan Palm Hank’s Triumph Buck Shot Fancy Change Direct Message Murphy’s Control CardEx Revvle Ad Copy Secondly Take Me Home Naap Change Toss Palm Pivot Change Swirly Peekaboo Magic or Real Scoop Impossible Sandwich Sybil Triumph Seduction Body Double Friendly Contributions Triple Cask Triumph by Elliot Terral he C.C Center by R Paul Wilson Kepplinger Prediction by Ricky Smith Fan Palm A seamless and smooth method for palming the top card during the action of closing a fan It is reminiscent of a palm by Chris Power, which was published in Opus Magazine, that delivers the top card to let hand Gambler’s Cop Start by fanning the cards in the let hand he card(s) to be palmed are on top of the deck and are thus nearest you when the fan is completed Position your right second inger at the gap between the card you want to palm and the rest of the deck (If you want to palm multiple cards, you can so by using the right second inger to square them with the top card while creating a slight separation between the cards to be palmed and the balance of the deck) If the cards are fanned too closely, use the let thumb to make small adjustments Your right second inger should enter the gap touching the short end(s) of the card or cards you want to palm, and the long side, near the corner, of the card directly below At this point you will start to close the fan by moving your right hand counter-clockwise During this process the right second inger needs to end up in position for the cards to be palmed To accomplish this, slide your second inger along the short edge of the cards slightly to the let To ind the perfect position, notice where your second inger lies when palming a card CARD MEN • As you continue to square the fan, you will ind that the cards to be palmed end up directly underneath the right hand in the perfect position for the following action Just before you disengage the pack to square, allow the card(s) to be palmed to escape the let thumb, and use the fact that they are slightly ofset to lever them into right hand classic palm he construction of this sleight makes the palm almost efortless, and you should be able to master it quite quickly Further, the closing of the fan creates great cover for the palming action, and since the cards are slightly jogged, it is not necessary to involve the let ingers which otherwise may create an unwanted tell Hank’s Triumph A two-shule handling of Triumph utilizing the Hank Miller Shule Have a card selected and control it second from the top Holding the deck in right hand Biddle grip, rotate the lower half face up into the let hand and perform the Hank Miller Shule beneath the second card down in the right hand’s face down portion he card will luter against the let hand card’s as the top card provides cover At the close of the shule the situation from the top of the deck should be: a face down indiferent card, the face down selection, half the deck face up, followed by half the deck face down Break at the middle of the deck where the face up and face down halves meet Turn the face down half face up into the let hand, in preparation for a second Hank Miller shule his time shule the let half into the right half beneath just the top, face down, indiferent card Upon completion of the shule, you will have a face down indiferent card, half the deck face up, the face down selection, and the rest of the deck - also face up Perform an Erdnase Color Change to make it appear as though all the face down cards turn face up Spread through the deck, concealing the reversed card second from the face, to show everything has righted itself, except one face down card the selection! Buck Shot A card is shot from the right hand into the let hand he deck is held in the let hand as the palm down right hand comes over from above; lit up the top card between the middle inger, at the outer front edge, and the thumb at the inner edge Straddle the outer edges of the card with your right irst inger at the front let edge and your pinky at the front right edge Squeeze to pop the inner edge of the thumb From this position the card is swiveled and rotated face up - by simultaneously rotating the right hand palm up and curling the right third inger and pinky At the completion of the rotation, the corner of the card that was held by the pinky will end up at the right thumb crotch, and the opposite edge will be held with the second inger Point the index inger and thumb as though you are making your hand into the shape of a gun You now shoot the card by increasing pressure (the card bows upward at the inner edge between the second inger and thumb base) until the card springs free from the second inger, shooting in a clockwise rotation from the hand Let it ly, and catch it face up on the deck in the let hand CARD MEN • 12 his technique can also be used as a production by starting with the card hidden in right hand classic palm before straddling the card and going into the shot